Self

[Dave McKnight]

Originally Posted by Claudemir Bonfim

Hi Dave,

You've already noticed the biggest deal about this nice work, to me if you correct that everything will be okay.
You can use a good mirror to check such things on a future portrait, even while painting a self portrait, you have to use a mirror other than the first one.

There's a few other problems I noticed too. The highlight of the left cheekbone is too low and the left cheekbone is a bit too wide. The colours around the neck look pretty crude here. This is not a very good picture of it so the colours a bit distorted.

I did periodically check with a mirror (just holding up the same mirror I look at myself with) but for some reason I didn't see these problems until I flipped the digital image.

Thansk for the advice,
Dave

[Sharon Knettell]

Dave,

I love the color and intensity.

Nothing done from a photograph could touch this. Great job!

[Jan Verhulst]

This is an outstanding painting imo. As a viewer I dont keep hanging on the technique but to that 'something' that emerges behind this portrait. (Wish my English was better )